Thread: Video Emerges of Oakland Police Attacking Army Ranger

Here’s the Army Ranger the Oakland Police Brutally Attacked

Oakland Police Strike Army Ranger With Nightsticks On His Back, Ribs, Shoulders and Hands, Lacerating His Spleen and Causing Internal Bleeding … Then Deny Him Medical Treatment for 18 Hours

Posted on November 6, 2011
by WashingtonsBlog

Video Emerges of Oakland Police Attacking Army Ranger

Video has emerged of a portion of the confrontation between Oakland Police and Army Ranger Kayvan Sabeghi which ended with a ruptured spleen, internal bleeding and multiple other injuries.

Here are stills captured from the video shot by KTVU:















Sabeghi was wearing shorts and what appear to be sandals (hardly riot clothing):



Sabeghi is an entrepreneur … he owns a local brewery (hardly the type to riot).

He was acting totally peacefully, and he told the police he was a veteran.

Here is the must-watch video of a portion of the incident (it shows police surrounding Sabeghi and dogpiling on him, but it doesn’t show the baton strikes which ruptured his spleen). http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/oakland ... red/vD5pb/

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/ ... acked.html

Oakland Police Strike Army Ranger With Nightsticks On His Back, Ribs, Shoulders and Hands, Lacerating His Spleen and Causing Internal Bleeding … Then Deny Him Medical Treatment for 18 Hours

Posted on November 5, 2011
by WashingtonsBlog

Police Lacerate Army Ranger’s Spleen and Cause Internal Bleeding … Then Deny Him Medical Treatment for 18 Hours

Reuters notes: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/ ... A820111104

A former U.S. Army Ranger and Occupy Oakland protester was in intensive care on Friday after a veterans group said he was beaten by police during clashes with demonstrators this week.

The veteran, identified as Kayvan Sabeghi, was the second former American serviceman during the past two weeks to be badly hurt in confrontations between anti-Wall Street protesters and police in Oakland.

The group Iraq Veterans Against the War said Sabeghi was detained during disturbances that erupted late on Wednesday in downtown Oakland and was charged with resisting arrest and remaining present at the place of a riot.

Highland General Hospital confirmed that Sabeghi was a patient in the intensive care unit there.

Brian Kelly, who co-owns a brew pub with Sabeghi, said his business partner served as an Army Ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Sabeghi told him he was arrested and beaten by a group of policemen as he was leaving the protest to go home.

“He told me he was in the hospital with a lacerated spleen and that the cops had jumped him,â€